Pakistani musician and author Ali Sethi, AB '06, returned to Harvard to talk to his longtime friend and mentor Ali Asani, Professor of Indo-Muslim Religion and Cultures, about sufi poetry, his own artistic journey and life as a perpetual student of the arts, and his days as a Harvard undergraduate.

In the last episode, we heard a rousing talk by UC Berkeley's Professor Ashok Gadgil, from the Mittal Institute’s annual symposium in May, 2018. Here’s the subsequent, fascinating conversation between Professor Gadgil, Professor Tarun Khanna (Director, The Mittal Institute; Harvard Business School)and Professor Asim Khwaja (Harvard Kennedy School) - they talk about how difficult it is to solve large-scale life or death problems, even with great resources, and the kinds of things you have to do in order to get things done.

In the last episode, we heard a rousing talk by UC Berkeley's Professor Ashok Gadgil, from the Mittal Institute’s annual symposium in May, 2018. Here’s the subsequent, fascinating conversation between Professor Gadgil, Professor Tarun Khanna (Director, The Mittal Institute; Harvard Business School)and Professor Asim Khwaja (Harvard Kennedy School) - they talk about how difficult it is to solve large-scale life or death problems, even with great resources, and the kinds of things you have to do in order to get things done.

Professor Ashok Gadgil (UC Berkeley)was originally a theoretical physicist, but during his distinguished career he has had a huge impact on thousands of lives with inventions that supply clean water to the poorest people in South Asia. At our Annual Symposium in May 2018, he explained how he has moved from abstract theory to such impressive and important practice.

Image credit: Lawrence Berkeley Nat'l Lab - Roy Kaltschmidt, photographer

Professor Ashok Gadgil (UC Berkeley)was originally a theoretical physicist, but during his distinguished career he has had a huge impact on thousands of lives with inventions that supply clean water to the poorest people in South Asia. At our Annual Symposium in May 2018, he explained how he has moved from abstract theory to such impressive and important practice.

Image credit: Lawrence Berkeley Nat'l Lab - Roy Kaltschmidt, photographer

In the developing world, 95% of people with a clinically significant mental illness receive no treatment at all, and it costs the global economy an estimated trillion dollars a year.

Vikram Patel is a distinguished Indian psychiatrist and The Pershing Square Professor of Global Health at Harvard Medical School. The Mittal Institute's Hasit Shah caught up with him a few days before our 2018 Symposium, where Professor Patel is one of the key speakers.

In the developing world, 95% of people with a clinically significant mental illness receive no treatment at all, and it costs the global economy an estimated trillion dollars a year.

Vikram Patel is a distinguished Indian psychiatrist and The Pershing Square Professor of Global Health at Harvard Medical School. The Mittal Institute's Hasit Shah caught up with him a few days before our 2018 Symposium, where Professor Patel is one of the key speakers.

Dr Emmerich Davies is a political scientist who has a long-term academic interest in India. He is now based at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and with funding from SAI, he's studying the current New delhi government’s attempts to reform education in the city.

Dr Emmerich Davies is a political scientist who has a long-term academic interest in India. He is now based at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and with funding from SAI, he's studying the current New delhi government’s attempts to reform education in the city.

Harvard doctoral student Cresa Pugh has devoted much of her academic career to understanding Myanmar’s complex, unstable social dynamics, and has personally witnessed the destruction and impacts of the recent violence in Rakhine, home of the Rohingya.